[Kitchen Alchemy] Graham-Roasted Chicken

Say you're at the grocery store, thinking of what to eat for dinner. Pork? Had that just yesterday. Beef? Nah, you've got that planned for the weekend. Fish? Mmmm, you have to be finicky with the spines and small bones. Lamb? Ooooh, soft and tender, but quite expensive. Vegetables? Guh, probably you've got an upset stomach with the salad dressing gone wrong.

Poultry? Now we're talking. Duck? Quite expensive, and the only recipe you can think of is Peking duck, which is quite meticulous. How about squab or pigeon? Too exotic for your taste. 

Well, that leaves the chicken.

Cock-a-doodle-doo?

So what recipe could we make of this fine bird? Sure, frying the heck out of it is the simplest, but sometimes can be a boring meal. Turning it into a stew can be a pain and you have to watch it. So how about....we roast it?

Told ya it'll be fun. Hit the 'read more' after the break.

Ingredients

• whole chicken, dressed and cut in half (longitudinally)
• half a stick of butter (unsalted preferably)
• box of cheese, grated
• bunch of cilantro
• garlic cloves, peeled and chopped 
• pepper, ground
• one pack of pre-crushed graham crackers

Now, we cook.

1) Before everything else, preheat your oven to around 220 degrees Farenheit. 

2) Set your chicken halves into a porcelain/Pyrex roasting dish, and rub a bit of salt all over it. Then let it rest aside, skin side up.

3) Combine the cheese, butter, cilantro, pepper and garlic into a bowl and mix everything thoroughly.

4) Spread this mixture ontop of the chicken halves, making sure almost all of the top of the chicken is covered.

5) Cover the butter-cheese spread with pre-crushed graham crackers. If you can't buy the pre-crushed pack, just grab a few sticks of graham crackers, and crush them by either your own hands or with a rolling pin. Enjoy the stress release that follow.

6) Once covered, pop this into the oven and let it cook for an hour and a half to two hours.

7) Your finished product should look like this: Bubbling all over, golden brown top and the sweet smell of toast graham.

Now just let it rest for awhile, and dig in to your heart's delight.